Hello all,
I have just completed the assembly of my first HTPC this weekend and have installed win XP Pro and MP that I got from a disk from a computer magazine. Everything is up and running apart from a heating issue - apparantly coming from graphic card and a too small cabinet. When I copied my +230Gb music plus some 45 Gb video files from the external HD the cpu clapped out 3 times due to overheating. Apart from that, it's all setup now - I've got sound and pictures and I can show videos and dvd's. Tv card is not yet installed as I just want the basics to run first.
I have never had any MC software before but used Media Player, Itunes and explorer. With +2,500 albums and +45,000 titles I have found explorer to be the fastest way to browse and find music.
So I saw MP as a great opportunity to try out another way of handling my music and at the same time adding the other aspects of a media center like tv and radio - all in one box.
I think MP is great - basically I like the way it's working and the very apparant support from the forum.
I'll be posting about my setup later - now it's about the sw version and the facilities: PM is ver 0.2.2.0 and before I am getting too much involved in this version I would like to know if I should upgrade straight away, and in that case if I need to uninstall 0.2.2.0 before I upgrade to the new version ?
A problem I have with the menu's is that the main menu scroll is too fast. I can hardly select the desired menupoint with the mouse before it disappear and it is impossible with the remote. Is it possible to make the "wheel" slow down - or to have static icons ? Another thing is that it is a slow jobt to scroll through all the music albums starting from one end even I use small icons. Is there a faster way ?
Another thing is that when select an album ( read map ) and click on the first song it plays only that song. Can I only play a sequence of songs through playlists ?
All for now
Chris
I have just completed the assembly of my first HTPC this weekend and have installed win XP Pro and MP that I got from a disk from a computer magazine. Everything is up and running apart from a heating issue - apparantly coming from graphic card and a too small cabinet. When I copied my +230Gb music plus some 45 Gb video files from the external HD the cpu clapped out 3 times due to overheating. Apart from that, it's all setup now - I've got sound and pictures and I can show videos and dvd's. Tv card is not yet installed as I just want the basics to run first.
I have never had any MC software before but used Media Player, Itunes and explorer. With +2,500 albums and +45,000 titles I have found explorer to be the fastest way to browse and find music.
So I saw MP as a great opportunity to try out another way of handling my music and at the same time adding the other aspects of a media center like tv and radio - all in one box.
I think MP is great - basically I like the way it's working and the very apparant support from the forum.
I'll be posting about my setup later - now it's about the sw version and the facilities: PM is ver 0.2.2.0 and before I am getting too much involved in this version I would like to know if I should upgrade straight away, and in that case if I need to uninstall 0.2.2.0 before I upgrade to the new version ?
A problem I have with the menu's is that the main menu scroll is too fast. I can hardly select the desired menupoint with the mouse before it disappear and it is impossible with the remote. Is it possible to make the "wheel" slow down - or to have static icons ? Another thing is that it is a slow jobt to scroll through all the music albums starting from one end even I use small icons. Is there a faster way ?
Another thing is that when select an album ( read map ) and click on the first song it plays only that song. Can I only play a sequence of songs through playlists ?
All for now
Chris